Volume 8, 1973

Transport of beryllium in beryllium dichloride vapour

Abstract

Experiments on the transport of beryllium in beryllium dichloride vapour at about 1 × 10–4 atmospheres have been made in the temperature range from 1250 to 1500 K. The transport can well be interpreted as resulting from the reaction Be(s)+ BeCl2(g)= 2BeCl(g)(1) and agrees with that extrapolated from previous transport experiments by Greenbaum, Arin, Wong and Farber between 1570 and 1725 K. A third law analysis of all the experiments leads to ΔH°f298, BeCl(g)= 1.7±0.7 kcal/mol.

This interpretation of the transport experiments can, however, not be reconciled with mass spectroscopic equilibrium measurements by Hildenbrand and Theard which led to ΔH°f298, BeCl(g)= 13.1 + 2.2 kcal/mol.

Second law analysis of the transport experiments interpreted as resulting from Be(s)+ BeCl2(g)=(BeCl)2(g)(2) is much less satisfactory than that from (1) and their third law analysis according to (2) with a reasonably estimated entropy for (BeCl)2(g), leads to a well defined enthalpy of reaction 2 ([small delta, Greek, macron]=±1.2), but to an enthalpy of dimerisation of about –90 kcal, which is much more negative than one can expect.

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Faraday Symp. Chem. Soc., 1973,8, 158-164

Transport of beryllium in beryllium dichloride vapour

P. Gross and R. H. Lewin, Faraday Symp. Chem. Soc., 1973, 8, 158 DOI: 10.1039/FS9730800158

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